2025 Spring COMPSCI 170 001 LEC 001

Spring 2025

COMPSCI 170 001 - LEC 001

Efficient Algorithms and Intractable Problems

John Wright, Nika Haghtalab

Jan 21, 2025 - May 09, 2025
Tu, Th
02:00 pm - 03:29 pm
Class #:28872
Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction
Time Conflict Enrollment Allowed

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 70
Enrolled: 395
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 465
Waitlist Max: 300
No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week, 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 8 hours of outside work hours per week.

Final Exam

MON, MAY 12TH
11:30 am - 02:30 pm
Valley Life Sciences 2050
Pimentel 1

Course Catalog Description

Concept and basic techniques in the design and analysis of algorithms; models of computation; lower bounds; algorithms for optimum search trees, balanced trees and UNION-FIND algorithms; numerical and algebraic algorithms; combinatorial algorithms. Turing machines, how to count steps, deterministic and nondeterministic Turing machines, NP-completeness. Unsolvable and intractable problems.

Class Notes

* Time conflicts ARE allowed but NO ALTERNATE FINAL EXAM.

* Lecture will be recorded for playback later.

* Limited seats have been set aside for Data Science majors.

Rules & Requirements

Requisites

  • Undergraduate Students: College of Engineering declared majors or L&S Computer Science or Data Science BA

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Reserved Seats

Reserved Seating For This Term

Current Enrollment

No Reserved Seats

Textbooks & Materials

See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.

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